FOR THE FAIR SEX, CORN BTARCH AND POWDER. Every season the young woman who assumes great superiority te her Kind beoause she doesn’t use powder, scene, starch than in well.sclected powders, injurious to the skin, as some cheap effect in clogging the pores of the skin. It is, moreover, somewhat coarser than the best powders prepared for the face, and is, therefore, not quite so soothing. good, simple face powder and use it as lightly as possible. member to wash their faces very care- fully with hot water after using it, in skin,—[St. Louis Star-Sayings. NRWEST OGUTCOME IN HOLLAND. lar several in itself mor becoming to its years ago, was never pretty | wearer beyond reproach. Still, in point of cut, | in holland. This has a skirt extremely | wide around the hem, standing away | from the feet on the front and sides. A pleated trimming divides the skirt mid- way of its length. The coat is shorter than an Eton jacket, so as to reveal a bit of the blouse bodice all around This jacket has revers out of proportion to its size, and these, as a rule, are over laid with linen gimp. Anything b caleulated to cut up the figure cannot well be supposed. —[ New York Post. Har tter USES OF PENNYROYAL. Sprinkle a palm leaf fan witl royal extract or the oil of diluted a little, and not a mos: dare approach you as you sit porch. The pennyroyal plant, johnswort and the tansy, should gathered and hoarded like gold, being careful not to tear them up by the roots, so that more will grow. Both of the former come out of the ground, too easily for the gatherer, so take your scissors along when you go hunting them. Penoyroyal, although far burning to be applied undiluted to the skin, reminds us of Shakepearc's saying “Like parmaceti for an open wound.’ It salves a wound before you get it by keeping away the noisy little lancet and blood sucker. The mosqui hates the smell of it, and you can easily run a!l such invaders away. —{ New York Advertiser. peu } LOO wine i winged i $y PAINTING WITH THE NERDLE. An authority on needle painting says of embroidered roses: **An artist in « broidery does not stop at embroidery silk for color. Whatever she feels she needs in her work she must find in some way, when it is impossible to get it by | mixing colors or in the regular grades of any of the different makes or dj Sometimes a color is too bright ; wash and hang it in the sun for days and will spften Ravel dress silks, ribbons, any material that has the color Furni ture textiles often have charming colors that can not be found anywhere else, To be sure, these will not do to work a whole leaf or petal, but they will serve admirably for shading or touching in places. Another rule for the good work- woman is to employ more than one Kind of silk, Use or filo-floss, as well as Roman fle and twist this last being for turnovers, well done, give beauty, depth and ex pression to rose work. of Dacca silks are exquisite coloring, but they must be split, and as they are twisted it leaves a little crinkle, which is not obiectionable in a leaf. [It is well, also, to remember, after your roses are finished, whether merely a spray or mass of roses. a day's work in touching up must be dome. To do this the piece should be fastened up about as a picture | is placed, and examined, Take it down, | put a stronger touch in a bud, a darker | shade in a petal, decpen the heart or raise a turnover, or shade it.” he filoselles 4% floss which, if Some #3 ne in i —— THE MUSIC MYTH By the “music myth” we mean the | old-fashioned idea that ayoung woman's | education is not complete unless she can perform on the pianoforte or some other musical instrument at least well enough to accompany her own voice in song. | There is reason to believe that this myth | is going out of fashion. It has long been insisted on, with a more or less cruel disregard, at times, of the wishes of the young lady herself, and of the enjoyment of the company for whom she is asked to perform. It is now seen, even by a great many proud parents, that unless Miss Mary has a taste for music, just ns Miss Martha | has a taste for drawing and painting and Miss Elizabeth a taste for housekeeping, it is useless to drive her to the piano stool for a certain number of hours’ prac- tice daily ; for it is the lesson of experi ence in many househo'ds that Miss Mary will get out of practice just as soon as she has a sufficient excuse for avoiding her irksome daily task. And if her voice is more musical on the easy level of conversation than in climbing up and down the stairs of the diatonie scale the comfort of others, besides that of Miss Mary, comes into the question, with a title to be considered. [New York Press. dn sis DIFFRRENT IDEAS OF BEAUTY. The ladies in Japan gild their teeth and those of the Indies paint them red, The ri of teeth must be dyed black tobe beautiful in Guzurat. In Green. land the ladies color their faces with blue and yellow. However fresh the complexion of a Muscovite may be she would think herself very ugly if she were not plastered over with paint. The Chinese must have their feet as diminu- tive as those of the she goats, and to render them thus their youth is in tortures. In ancient Persia an aqui- line nose was often thought worthy of the crown, and if there was any compe- tition between the princes people generally went by this criterion of majesty. In some countries the mothers break the noses of their children and hend between two to red hair; the Turks, vn che contrary, are warm admirers of it. in China small, round eyes are liked, and the girls NOTES AND COMMENTS Tur officials of the royal British navy that they may be thin and long, The Turkish women dip a gold brush in the tincture of a black drug, which It is too but looks shining by They tinge their nails with a color. An African beauty must have small eyes, thick lips, a large, flat nose and a skin beautifully black. An rose They he Peruvians, hang on it a thickness of which is proportioned by the rank of their husbands, The custom of boring it, as our ladies do their ears, is very com mon in several nations, Through the perforations are hing various materials wold, stones, a single and sometimes a The inhabitants of the land of Natal wear caps or bonnets, from four to six inches high, composed of the fat of oxen. They then gradually anoint the head with a pyrer grease, which, mixing with the hair, fastens these bonnets for their lives !—! Kansas City Times, FASHION XOTIES, The hair at present is completely waved over the head. The all dark girl is again the rage, and hour. Pin-dotted Swiss musling fashionable for summer gowns, are very ig for summer dresses net, and light materials, tiling trimn grienadine, gingaam, B 1¢ Infanta hats and be wopular faney. nnet costumes for women more stylish than nautical, The Isabella ring cor most popular in the line A ne i two strands of tiny gold and silver shells, w and unique bracelet is made of yn and Paris at many fashion carry a walking stick on the fashionable promenades A new napkin shape of a of course, being folded thrust in between the prongs ] tle pocket pincushion made in the shape of an acorn. The cup crocheted in nut silk, while » rest of it 1s of oli with bran, ar $58 ribb In both Lond present of women ho der is made small silver clothespin, the #1 napkin, lat and is brown i green satin, hile the stalk ve 1d is finished w ith Ju. Accordion-plaited skirts of extremely Ma material in very ligl i i i immed with rowa of plain satin ribbon . They are worn with faney waists made of with an : b ws, lo d a very 1K Lo mals sey ¥ lace shundanc in sett isn v4 of wide nnd iis a The low-cut lining for very thin dresses is again approved, aod it is said that we ire to have bare arms at i dressy Wfternoon entert for evening. The first might | erated, the last may be as well lef of regulations of the SOCIelyY Woman. as the Americal Dire aude of Ww hite { at) to « linen duck and serge ores 18 exile 4 tals T} # * are usefully n 18h i he yiTie what difficult jenn, better adapted to w means Are se however, sid are ymen with large than to her who must study how wler- o make the best Appearance on te g § t of mount sxfiion one « Wear 0 the The flower.garden is the milliner's calendar, so far as trimming is concerned, and she is most in style who ean duplicate the beauties of het dressy millinery. mu ERR the garden border oa One of the caprices of a skirt of silk with very thin material draped over it, The silk is of some very delicate or pronounced color, and the drapery material is semi-transparent necessary to wear all of the feathers with which the shops are filled. he fashion of wearing a cluster of revived again. Marguerites snowy satin make a lovely effect steel for with pretty Gray, showered mourning. Lace embroidered in colors is a fascia lace, embroidered in gold and turquoise, is effective on ivory brocade, All-black organdie and dresses are trimmed with ribbon desired in summer gowns, seems likely to as the Eton and zouave effects are seen on many of the new dresses, Shirred, plaited and folded vests are worn under them. A pretty cape is made of green velvet, fringed with jet sequins and trimmed with perpendicular lines of jet. The upper cape is of coarse black tulle, with falling ends in front, Black accordion plaited lace makes a successful eape if worn under a pointed figaro with wide turn-over collar and revers of black glace merveillenx, shot with gold and embroidered with jet, — sh AN assis AROUND THE HOUSE. SR — To prevent starch from sticking, a plan is to put a teaspoonful of clean white lard into a pint of thick starch while hot and stir it thoroughly through the mixture, To clean mahogany, take one furniture ofl, mix with one-half in ntt spirits of turpentine and one-half pint vin i wet a woolen rag with the liquid, and rub the wood the way of the grain, then polish with a pieces! flannel and soft cloth. To clean plush invert a hot flat iron, place upon it a single thickness of we cotton cloth, lay the plush upon the cloth, with the wrong downward, sad rub 8 cloth until Se modern Persians have 8 strong i possibility of raising the hull of the ill fated Victoria, which sank in the eastern end of the Mediterrunean Sea near Trip oll some weeks ngo, It now seems that the situation could not have been fully understood when the inquiries were in stituted, as the report of the Salvage the feat is simply impossible. Tha doe ument is issued on the authority of C, and Captain Stephen Jarman, Royal Naval Reserve. Among other statements the report says that the vessel lies too deep, of a Frenchman to build a craft to seriously considered, pressure, The greatest depth vet reached diver his life. It was a vessel lost in the specie, $400,000 of which was saved. The association is now lookine for a diver who will go down even twenty three fathoms, but has so far been un liberal percentage of the $00,000 left in the reward, The Victoria in fathoms, where the pressure is that of ten lies seventy equal atmospheres, or enough to thing short of a solid ples ¢ of metal, to say nothing of a human body clad only in a rubber diving suit in New Hampshire he he is benefith Tune is 8 man named William C. Todd, the theory that i fellow. creat ff supplies of who his 3 en he t res w their Harper's Weekly says that ‘he provided for f newspapers for the Bos. 3 } : 1 pewsoapers within reach i tely AM) a Year for 3 penditure of Ali €X nblie and wen wered similar provision {or » phil i Newbury port, He believes in alue of newspapers, and yet it raveier, ous retirement tion ae pre has beoome h infor the diffused and the srncd that free read de iibraries great agency by whi mation is } naople are edueat pg rooms are likely to . we in Ths Deer IP ips t i Ca Havin they soon spent Breiuen inns und that they tere i burden was inken 3 the V them Measirs eparcd, and i ake 1 thoussad of » speedily taken » wretched wanderers ind their w and the Berlin Poor obliged to take care of hem they could gradually to their Berlin Poor Board then sued recover iremen Poor Board, have just decided that pay up. The ju ay to public Board was and despats hed 1 he ges feed until REV hom a {io and the courts must not as it did a little while ago the latter does seem quite so smart now A Luca contest g going on in Nevada over the richt to the use of the water of the Carson River The litigants farmers and mill-owners, If the are run by jprower, crops must be raised without which they say is impossible i= walter The of Ormsby County, Nev. The plaintiff represents the claims of many ether mills, the Mexican mill, the Brunswick, the Santiago, Nevada, Franklin, Wood. worth, and Hoek Point, The conten- tion is that each of these mills is entitled to 7.000 inches of water during all scasons, both as riparian owners and as prior appropriators. The farmers claim to have appropriated the waters of the river before use thereof by any of the mills. Reams of testimony have already been taken, and the case is causing an interest and excitement that is incon. ceivable at this distance. The Carson does not flow very far, nor are its waters deep, but for those very reasons they are inestimably precious in that arid region. Tuoveaxnps of Americans who have climbed to the summit of the famous Drachienfels to behold the beauties of the Valley of the Rhine may hear with regret of the death of “The Singer of the Drachenfels,” The ancient bard in his fantastic costume, With his thick, long silver hair falling upon his shouiders and his flowing white beard. seemed a wanderer froin the “minnesinger” days, and in strange Keeping with the rugged mountain whose beauties, history and romance he sounded. Ludwig Erber, to give him his real, rather prosaic, name, was a tenor singer of prominence so long ago that few remember the time, But he grew weary of the world, and built his hermit hut on the summit of There, at certain times cach evening, he sang *‘of the Drachenfels,” and reaped a rich harvest from the people who heard him. Even to the last his voice was clear, wu thetic and strong, the result no of his wode of life. But he is dead, and the Drachenfels has lost one of its attractions, ~ Tuxne went to the Santa Monica (Cal.) Poorhouse recently ies career 1840 on the Yorktown, and helped raise the bear flux at Monterey, He fought in the Mexican War, taking part in thirteen fierce engmazements, and in the | civil war from beginning to end. He | aise fought ngainst the Digger Indians and other tribes, never being wounded. | But not long ago he lost his arm running {an elevator at Alameda, [le is alinost | 76 years old, and has seen gigantic for- | tunes grow up like mushrooms, | A cupsmisr, who owns a fine farm on | Long Island and has been experimenting { in butter making, says that the avernge farmer throws away in buttermilk ope half of the healthful solids in milk, es | pecially if he uses the old way of churn jing. By the use of a small quantity of black pepsin double the amount of butter can be made, A teaspoonful of pepsin added to each gallon of cream will combine in the form of butter much But the butter will not be 20 good as if made | in the ordinary way. Arvexis Convsmaus, a resident of BufTalo, 101 years old, says he is a lineal descendent of Christopher Columbus | He as an interesting history, and the data on which are based his claims for a | direct descent from the grest navigator are numerous and convincing, It is claimed that he is the { great-great. grandson diseovered America, | that is thrown away in buttermilk, great-great great of the man who already used as a Eirgorric power is 5 An E ? motor in farm work Mr tricity glish elec. BAYS int uw « passing through the soil up the salts, and in of po nitrate of ph wphate of lime mav be brought into forms casily available as phat food R. G. Dyrenforth, the maker in whom some Chicago capitalists pia d a good deal of who failed to trician, lonney, t urrent of ole breaks hat way n ite soda and CoLoxEr rain confidence, but come up to expectations, on the t is possible by scien tific methods ts ke rain even in the I) He thinks that rain making will eventually supersede irriga ti 1 parts of the country giih iret is stil nthiusiast He ail sert of Sahara 1100 in an A Giant Hee Expedition, The exp dition which the Department of Agric some time ago to India for the purpose Of procuring = t store contemplated sending out certain gland bees, which untry, has These are the biggest the world, and they the forests six or seven are found hanging lofty trees or from viecting ledges of rock at x high al Fhe combs vield enormous (juan are wild in that « not as vet $ Deen disp stehed species Known in build combs in th, iimbs of feet in lenyg f from the es of wax, which is a8 valuable Mn mercial article, so that many skilled men } i of hunting for them iperstitions fexr i DY stratagem Having smoked them with a bunch of leaves on the end cut away the comin daced to wax, find to warehouses tons of th ig stick, they which, when re their way eventually in the eities, w may where tons on to is material be seen gether. nooner or be fe where iL is Inter some of these great bees tehed to the United States, that they could be finest fact that will Crops of th f The than made to su and most wax, the dr inrger of ordinary species | HIP § the males as led enthusiasts to that they could be crossed with the females of stocks already acclimated her Nevertheless, the practicability of believe must be re accomplishing this result garded as very doubtful, inasmuch v are probably distinct species, These wonderful insects from India have longer tongues than are possessed by other bees, and the belief is entertained that they could secure from many Kinds of flowers honey that now goes lo waste, No faith is placed in the remarkable stories told of their extraordinary foro ity and of attacks which they are alleged to have made upon whole villages of peo le with direful results, Dr. Frank Ben the bee expert employed by the De partment of Agriculture, investigated j them ia their native forests not loag ago and demonstrated that expert beekeepers conld easily handle them, as £5 i : fon, Languages of Indians, In the recently issued seventh anaual | report of the bureau of ethnology, Maj. J. W. Powell, director, comes to several new conclusions about the North Ameri | can Indiare. guages belonging to distinct families, with no apparent unity of origin, been greatly exaggerated abundant food supply, it was very small, and nowhere, save possibly in California, had it augmented sufficiently to press upon the food supply. Though the In- state of equilibrium. then, many of the tribes became nomadic. Agriculture was generally followed among the tribes of what are now the Eastern United States, but emancipate them wholly from the hunter state, - wr “ Sound Photographed, Tt fs said that Professor Hermann has succeeded in obtaining a photograph of the vowel sounds, He first spoke them into a phonograph, which afterward slowly reproduced them into a delicate micro-telephone. To the vibrating drum of the Ssleplons was fixed a small mirror, from which a single ray of light was re. flected to un moving strip of sensitized FACTS ABOUT THUNDERSTORMS, Results of the Government Investiga. tions of Last Summer. Desiring to have a practical study of thunderstorms made ? dims the summer of 1802, to determine the feasibility of making thunderstorm forecasts, snd to ubtain a better knowledge of their char. aeteristics, Prof. Harrington, Chief of the Weather Bureau, began preparations n April of that year for systematic work in this line by issuing a circular to se jected stations, together with a supply of record cards upon which reports of storms in the respective localities should be made. ‘The data have been compiled from a large number of these reports, and have been condensed from separate charts into one general chart, and a bul letin based thereon has been published, In regard to heat thunderstorms, the bulletin says, it is found that two dis tinct thunderstorm belts may traverse the same territory, but that the second storm does not appear to hold its force to the same extent after it reaches the the same in the thunder While there is no laid down for fore. thunderstorms from the daily weather chats, yet certain conditions indicate the pment of a thunder storm belt, generally follows luring the succeeding twenty-four hours, It was found that during the nearly 90 per cent. of the thunderstorms weurred in the bell covered by the or the iso In heated terms looked for aiong pressure A301 iperatare dur continues high, These ia cur the day after the maximum beat has passed llobert De CC. Ward, of Harvard Uni versity, made the report of the investiga New England, He says that the data for one summer are too few to give any reliable average. A general facts. however, were noted Fhe majority of A giand had is previous storm on {his was well defined storm belt of June 6 infallible rule to be devel which BURBON 180 bar of 80 and at pear therm of thunderstorms m i IRN Ie re afterncon storms are InCies 70 «le bie of i in 4 to che ae inches) and wh he ten ng the abi HH tions of thunderstorms in few we thunderstorms is n outside of 1 their ong F Gistrict and n the West irbances, « came to it ready made they were mostly large a wide area, in vering two or three hun. ved £151 iron dist veering SEVera: ocnses « sna ered miles, WAY I a0 easier : i {Charles M. Strong, the Weather Bureau he observer of at Columbus, Ohio, Lis report on inderstorms in Ohio in ¥ v . i: : : ine, July nod Augus, rthe n v savs that ' v Eat { appearing ove northwest portion of ti wed northeast over the ng the took @ y the the the Sciota and passed sou Forty ast, 235 i <4 per cen je State either m Of ake thward of ad jot trend t flies southerly SOU northern watershed over Muskingum Valleys, and casterly into West Virgiomm per cen moved south cent and not orecasis than are given ai OTe for more de " ent it present, Conquest Over Floods, The engage sea of | (sovernment 8 about to bo the The to 5 ut off 8 Zuyder Ze while connection the 4 into col 8 surface will of undertaking fo nillion acres of land thing lass than nous the German and central part with reat sea inlet Know from tl i the LiCean, ro serving for { ir by ship chanoel part w THE alth igh the sea on the the dikes, The sea ix to be shut out from the entire area, but only certain large tracts along the margin of the io closed are to be reclaimed in the cen. tre will be left a large tract of sandy bottom, aad he depression will be filled with fresh water, It will be koown as the Ysel lake, and wide, navigable channels will radiate from it to impor. tant towns. The the sea bed are, the areas to be reclaimed. That part of the bottom of the Zuyder Zee now cov ered with fertile clay has been marked out for reclamation, while the uncultiv able stretches of sand are lefl at the bot tom of the future Ysel Lake. The dik? that will cut the basin off from the ocean will there are already 165 which have heretofore the ocean, greater HYeric tivable gi t bw far below outside therefore, to determine dikes the miles of protected The commision says it will take eight years to build the proposed cut- off dike. It will take at least twenty- four years or more to build the four reclaimed. The total cost of the recla- mation works is estimated at about $80,000,000, — New Orleans Picayune, The Prize Hero of the Year, lantry and pluck of which the catas trophe has fiven us 80 many examples, none stsnds out clearer than that of young Lanyon, the little middy who stuck by the Admiral to the last, We can fancy the boy standing by the great, Froude somewhere describes him, and the tense of security which his presence must have inspired in the youngster, “You bad better jump,” the Admiral is reported to have said, and came the reply, “I'd rather stay with you, sir,” The subject is one worthy of being placed on the walls of the Academy next year ~{ London World. Blackbird Days. a — Jan, 50 und 31 and Feb. 1s ing at Constantinople, Brescia and a Danube and the Rhioe as the ong he Daye.” A eurious legend says that grigioally all of kels (black. ) were white, and became black because during one year in the Middle Ages, the three mentioned above were so cold that all the birds In 3a took refuge in the chimneys. days , witha “the Phi Eo he Dir Ldncoln’s Address at Gettysburg, The following interesting letter sp. pers in the N. Y. Tribune: Sin: 1 have been asked to give m manner in whic in 1863. 1 stood during the entire service of the day on the ex- When the President's his address was written His with short arms of about two inches, were fastened upon the temples. He advimced in his habitually stooping the plat over his which, looking side of the sheet, which was folded in the middie. As remember, he read it without much animation of manner, with little gesture, and with the subdued and tone becoming the thoughts It was so short t people had hardly begun to listen belgesel and my recollection is bat the prevailing sense of the moment disappointment g the homands who stood befo . : t ! hed ; form But there were persons on je ewels who Lhe deftly set in that was Mr, 1 Baw gicaining spond] tions u sident had al- mory of men. contrast of 1 those two, eirgant or never more never more bh gained its delivery; many audi sdmiration suswered that wiped it I: There could be event de- p M'Pugnrsox. ar. 1, 1803. , Te of the taking Authenticity of the t of Christ,” i was not forme great likeness of a real I with the n, and ictly to its of that painters minds when v His visage, e all un we distin res that which Lord. vw hers * and we to every form art and that to day, 3 vents, it was a fixed type. No painter of our own time woul ; dream rciapming it as an inven- Mr. Bayliss proceeded to trace the sacred likeness baek through aries, 1 y¥ the he traced He liv to the lectar eently itish Artists, ikeness or one; : in all ages had bed they were tempt os reid ang Cons if guished in 2 was infendg represent our OER ¢ ver il was « mmon every country, tion of his own t the cticall same, un time Cent LIWAYS christ and His and it was quite certain that St. Peter and Bt. Paul would not have sanctioned the perpetra likeness to be conter i tion the churches of a in : did they ognize that truce A Clever Irish Girl, Miss Mary O'Brien, a clever Irish girl, has won the Scientific Research Scholar. ship (£150 per annum for two years) st the University College of Wales, Abery- stwyth. Since the subject selec ted must bear upon an industry, she proposes to take up the question, &0 important to agriculturists, of the nitrogen supply of leguminous and other plants Oniy one awarded to a woman, Miss O'Brien was educated at the Friends Schools, Ack- worth and York, gaining an open scholarship of £356 for Natural Science at the Aberystwyth College in 1890. After passing through an advance science course, she took her B. Sc. degree last year with second clase honors in botany In the former subject she in her clsss; in the latter she was placed fourth, and no candidate attained to the first class. A Round Robin, It has happened before, and will bap- pen again, that people sometimes suffer plain of it directly for fear of dismiseal irom their situation or of other unpleas- ant consequence of their action. The therefore adopt what is called a “ron robin”-~that is, they sign their names to their petition or letter in a circle, in whien form it is impossible for any one to detect the pame that was first written down, which of course would be the namo of the loader of the agitation, or, as we say in this connection, the ring. leader. The phrase is merely a transla ban (ribbon ot robin), a A eB AR, They Make Aurcras to Order, Artificial miniature auroras of thé bo. tealis variety have been uoed by both De La Rive, the French savan Levstrom, the Swedish
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